1. Devaluation of a currency means
Reduction in the value of a currency vis-a-vis major internationally traded currencies
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2. India changed over to the decimal system of coinage in
April 1957
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3 The first wholly Indian Bank was set up in
1894
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4 The co-operative credit societies have a
Three-tier structure
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5 Reserve Bank of India was nationalized in the year
1949
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6 In India, inflation measured by the
Wholesale Price Index number
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7. The budget deficit means
Difference between all receipts and all the expenditure
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8 Paper currency first started in India in
1542
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9 Deficit financing means that the government borrows money from the
RBI
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10 Excise duty is a tax levied on the
Production of goods
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11 World Human Rights Day is observed on
December 10
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12 The World Environment Day is celebrated on
June 5
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13 OS' computer abbreviation usually means
Operating System
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14 TMP' extension refers usually to what kind of file?
Temporary file
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15 Who co-founded Hotmail in 1996 and then sold the company to Microsoft?
Sabeer Bhatia
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16 What does EPROM stand for?
Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory
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17 DTP' computer abbreviation usually means
Desktop Publishing
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18 The Indian to beat the computers in mathematical wizardry is
Shakunthala Devi
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19 Who is known as 'Indian Bismarck
Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
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20 Who is the Flying Sikh of India
Milkha singh
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21 When was the first elevator built
1743
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22 Who invented Dynamite
Alfred B. Nobel
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23 The Internet first implemented
October 29, 1969
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24 The National Song of India was composed by
Bankim Chandra Chatterji
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25 The National Anthem of India was first sung in the year
27th December 1911,
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26 George Bernard Shaw, the great dramatist, was
An Irishman
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27 The book 'Gulliver's Travels' was written by
Jonathan Swift
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28 Gita Govinda' is written by
Jaya Dev
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29 Tipu sultan was the ruler of
Mysore
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30 The language of discourses of Gautama Buddha was
Pali
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31 Where is the Railway Staff College located
Vadodara
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32 Garden City of India'
Bangalore
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33 Where is the headquarters of Oil and Natural Gas Commission
Dehradun
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34 Track and field star Carl Lewis won how many gold medals at the 1984 Olympic games
Four
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35 The 'Dronacharya Award' is given to
Coaches
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36 Who was the first Indian to win an individual medal in the Olympics
Developing countries
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37 India won its first Olympic hockey gold in
1928
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38 The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is located at
Geneva
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39 INTERPOL means
International Criminal Police Organization
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40 G-15 is a group of
Developing countries
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